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4 students are asked to identify the prime numbers from the following list: 7. 6, 3, 5, 1, 9, 8. Which answer is correct? 1,3,5,7,9 3,5,7 1,3,5,7 3,5,7,9

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You have the following list of numbers:

7, 6, 3, 5, 1, 9, 8

In order to determine which of the previous numbers are prime numbers, you consider that a prime number is a number greater than 1, that ONLY can be divided by itself and 1 (to obtain a whole number).

Due to the previous definition, yuo can notice that from the list of numbers, there are three prime number: 7, 3, 5,

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